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  1. BrutulTM

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    And even if you decide you want out, they have no obligation to buy you out. You can try to find some other sucker to buy your share, but there's not much chance that anyone would. You are pretty much totally powerless as a minority owner.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If you want a good layer of cheese it's hard to get it all melted without burning the bread. This way just ensures the the bread won't be burnt and the cheese will be fully melted. I have tried making grilled cheese with 2 slices of cheese instead of one but to get the cheese well melted you...
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    Survivor

    I'm not sure what smart moves Tony has made. He has been aggressive, but totally erratic. He has kept the majority alliance together which is something, but he's been a bull in a china shop doing it and without finding a shitload of HII's he would have been gone a while ago. He's been on the...
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    Survivor

    You are on crack. Tony is barely mediocre. Spencer has had terrible luck the whole game. The only reason he is still here is that he has won a shit load of immunities but most of the stuff that has gone against him wasn't his fault. I don't get Tony voting for Trish either but he is the...
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    Louie

    After the last post I googled up some interviews after I made my last post and he pretty much just said he liked the actress and he realized people were going to go WTF when they first saw her but that they would just ignore it and suspend disbelief as long as she played the part well so I guess...
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    California trying GPS-tracking mileage tax for 2016

    The only problem with just checking the odometer is that it doesn't account for out of state driving. If you live in Lake Tahoe and commute to Reno every day then it's not really fair for California to tax you for mileage when 90% of your driving is done in Nevada.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Kirun got owned pretty severely just now. Comeback is "I don't like food that tastes good".
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    Louie

    I guess I don't get it. He's trying to trick people into thinking he did a lousy job casting and then he's going to yell "gotcha!" at some point?
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Isn't chocolate ice cream just ice cream with some chocolate added in? I'm not sure there's really a difference here.
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    Parent Thread

    I doubt that the suicide threat is serious, but it does seem like the kid could use some counseling if nothing else.
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    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    Owning a minority stake in a small business is a lousy investment. You will have no say in how things are run, you may or may not ever get a dividend if the place turns profitable, and the only way you ever get your money back is if they sell the place for more than you bought it for and they...
  12. BrutulTM

    Louie

    This show is awesome, but does it bump anyone else that his ex is like half black but their kids are little albino gingers just like Louie? Seems like an odd choice to chose an ex that looks like she couldn't possibly have given birth to those girls.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well maybe if the king orders them to stop 3 seconds in. I don't think anyone is bossing either of them around much at this point.
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    Parent Thread

    I remember going over to my aunt and uncle's house once and my cousin was sitting in the middle of the dirt driveway wearing nothing but a diaper, holding the dog bowl in his lap and doing the "one for you, one for me" thing sharing kibble with the dog. He was also one of those kids that never...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Yeah, I can't see a duel between the Cleganes having an ambiguous ending.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Frosty is the opposite of a watered down milkshake, they are considerably thicker than a milk shake. It's basically a cup full of chocolate soft serve. I agree that a regular milkshake is better, but the watered down thing makes no sense to me.
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    Weather

    This is the most clearheaded discussion of nuclear power I have come across. It was written pre-fukushima so it doesn't address that directly, but it's a nice simple explanation of a lot of the fears about nuclear power. Rethinking Nuclear Power People refusing to allow new nuclear plants...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Jumping into water with a knife in your teeth is documented to be one of the most manly things that you can do and usually only action heros can pull it off.
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    California trying GPS-tracking mileage tax for 2016

    Only hypocrites think that they are not hypocrites.
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Baalke is damn good at drafting. It gives me hope that they can keep the team competitive after some of the stars start making big bucks.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I am fairly open minded when it comes to pizza but I will not accept white sauce on it. That is not pizza dammit.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have done that a few times. It's great and about the only way to make really crusty bread at home.
  23. BrutulTM

    California trying GPS-tracking mileage tax for 2016

    I think they're just trying to get out in front of the highway taxes going down if hybrids and electric cars get more popular. It's really a more reasonable method of assessing taxes, but like some other people have said, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the idea of a GPS in my car that the...
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    Tons of shows cancelled

    I love Survivor, and I am not claiming to have special awesome taste or anything. I don't even know if the network shows are good or bad, they've just fallen off my radar for whatever reason. I mostly pick my shows based on buzz on the internet and there is very little of it about network...
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    Tons of shows cancelled

    I've never seen an episode of any of those shows. I'm not sure how it happened, but I am pretty much not interested in any show that's on the big 4 networks these days. If it's on HBO/Showtime/FX/AMC I'm interested, if it's on NBC/Fox/CBS/ABC I don't even give it any consideration most of the...
  26. BrutulTM

    Grills

    It has what they call a plate setter for indirect cooking, and yeah you just add wood chunks or chips if you want smoke.
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    The PUSSY SHIT spoiler discussion thread

    The whole thing with Ramsey wasn't really shown in the book. All you knew was that he got captured at Winterfell and then we didn't hear from him again until he was fully domesticated and named Reek.
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    Mad Men

    First bit of the old Don Draper swagger this season.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Boiled meat is not delicious. There is zero reason to do that if you have the option of sauteeing it or grilling it.
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    Weather

    Chernobyl could never have happened without the Soviet Union being colossal fuckups. Modern reactors are 1000 times safer than Chernobyl and even that reactor could not have blown like it did without stunning levels of incompetence. Fukushima was a 1 in a million combination of earthquake and...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    >insert picture of the persian guy from 300 falling down the well here<
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    Parent Thread

    That is probably the worst thing that can happen to a kid/parent, but it almost never happens. Very few kids get abducted and the vast majority of those that do are by their own fucked up parents. Even pedophiles don't generally pick up strange kids off the street. Risk vs. Reward for picking...
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    Parent Thread

    I realize that the article I linked is going to be TL/DR for most people, but one of the things they talked about is that it's actually important to let kids go out and play on their own, as in out of sight and mostly unsupervised. It seems like that is unthinkable to most parents these days...
  34. BrutulTM

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    I agree that a touchscreen is a horrible idea on a remote control. I had a Harmony One and the button layout/ergonomics was excellent but the touchscreen is lame. What makes a good remote is the ability to use it in the dark without looking at it. Having to turn on the screen and look down at...
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    Weather

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    Survivor

    That is exactly how I would rank it as well. Kass is horrible and can't possibly get a vote. Spencer probably has to win out to make it though, I don't see anyone wanting to sit next to him. He is the favorite in every one especially with Tash gone but winning 3 in a row is damn hard to do...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Your avatar is well chosen cause you are a huge pussy.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    The DQ double cheeseburger is very strong. They have sauce on them that I think is just ketchup, mustard, and diced onions mixed together but it is delightful. My dog enjoys licking the excess cheese off the wrapper as well.
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    Parent Thread

    I thought this article was a really good read. I would be interested to hear what some of you parents of small children think about it. The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic
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    Mad Men

    Freddy's doing AA stuff. If Don ever quits drinking for real Freddy will probably be his sponsor.